Francisco Garupe

Francisco Garupe (died 1643) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest and Catholic missionary to Japan.

Biography
Francisco Garupe was born in Portugal, and he attended St. Paul's College in Macau, where he studied to become a Jesuit member of the Catholic priesthood. In 1638, Garupe and Sebastiao Rodrigues were sent by Alessandro Valignano to find the Jesuit priest Cristovao Ferreira in Japan after he was rumored to have renounced his faith. They were arrested by the Tokugawa authorities, who had expelled Christian missionaries from the country, and Garupe and three prisoners were taken out on boats by their guards. The Japanese wanted to drown them one by one to force Garupe to renounce his faith, but all of them drowned when Garupe attempted to swim offshore to rescue the last prisoner from being drowned.